This amazing picture of a car exploding on Mare Street in Hackney was taken by Telegraph reader Miks Uzans, who writes: "There were around 30 well-equipped rioters. The police didn't even come close to thi...

Britain’s police forces could face a bill for tens of millions of pounds from insurance companies because property was damaged in the rioting while the “police effectively failed to keep law and order”. ...

What colour is Mark Duggan? Mark Duggan is the man who was shot dead by the police on Thursday in Tottenham. The Tottenham riots last night were sparked when people protested his death. This morning, I fir...

An elderly man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was attacked by rioters after he tried to extinguish a fire they had started in a bin, it is understood. A witness said rioters attacked the vict...

Rioting and looting has spread to towns and cities throughout England, 24 hours after police were accused of losing control of the streets of London. Officers were fighting disturbances in Manchester a...

Apparently, "Anonymous" won't be accepting your friend request. Members of the shadowy collective known for its politically motivated Web hacks and attacks are targeting Facebook for what they claim to be...

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." - Galatians 6:7 "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water." - William Blake Robert J. Grod...

reports Brazilian Foreign Ministry official Carlos de Abreu, hoping to refute an earlier story in the local Brazilian press that Steve had locked himself in the bathroom in a hissy fit over press arrangeme...

Image from Gem's World Postcards. Letters from France VII: En vacances payé... Paid vacations and how we liveThe value placed on time off from work holds leisure, family, and the pursuit of happiness more i...

*Debtpocalypse deferred!* by Tom Tomorrow [*Don't forget to click to enlarge.*] *" Austerity during an economic slowdown isn't just bad for the unemployed. It's also bad for business."* *-- The New York...

The Film Archive: This program features Gary Shaw, assassination expert and author of Cover-Up, and former CIA official John Stockwell. The first part of the program focuses on the nature of the complex ...

I just returned from an afternoon, evening, and late evening at Quantum Theories and Symmetries 7, a massive theoretical physics conference in Prague. Martin Schnabl et al. have invited about 400 partic...

Iran is planning to retaliate against the United States for the sabotage against its nuclear program, according to an editorial in the Kayhan newspaper, the mouthpiece of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah A...

The Quebec government has acknowledged the negative effects on Inuit society of a mass slaughter of sled dogs in the province's far north in the 1950s and 1960s. Premier Jean Charest and his native affai...

Mayor Michael Nutter today announced a tighter weekend curfew in the Center City and University City regions of the city, as he continues grappling with the threat of “flash mobs” in Philadelphia. Nutter...

Authorities in Ohio say a woman who died after falling face first into a recycling bin had gotten stuck in a spot where she couldn't breathe. The woman's husband says he came home from work and found her ...

Using a hidden video camera, a Texas man filmed four naked, honey-drenched teenage girls while they showered at a church where he worked as a youth pastor. But since the statute of limitations has alread...

A school bus driver on Long Island is fighting to regain his job after being fired last week for being a Good Samaritan, apparently against company policy. George Daw claimed he was terminated because he...

A NATO helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan this morning, just two days after 38 people were killed in another Chinook crash. Officials said there were no apparent casualties on board the ISAF helic...

This is the shocking moment a young man is apparently forced to hand over all of his clothes after appearing to be stripped naked during lawless riots overnight. Internet rumours last night claimed that ...

The first week of August 2011 will probably go down in history as the time when the American dollar effectively and finally lost its status as the world’s foremost reserve currency -- and European leaders ...

Being neighbors with China is not something the people of Burma chose for themselves, but they have to heavily bear the repercussions. For many decades, China’s influence has intruded on their daily lives ...

The first week of August 2011 will be remembered as a singularly irrational, wasteful and shameful moment in the political and economic history of the United States. It reflected much of what is wrong with...

Investors in global equities markets might be feeling battered and bruised as fears of a global recession take hold but the riots in London could become a symbol of a social backlash smouldering away in th...

Maybe it is the influence of a Tisha B'Av way of looking at reality. This article is a nightmare scenario intended to act as a wake up call. How can a tiny nation, hated wherever it resides, possibly surv...

Inflation in China was higher than expected in July, despite a series of efforts by the government to rein in prices. Consumer prices in July rose 6.5% compared with the same month last year, the Nationa...

A torture camp run by Zimbabwe's security forces is operating in the country's rich Marange diamond fields, BBC Panorama has found. The programme heard from recent victims who told of severe beatings and ...

If you've seen the 1983 movie "WarGames," in which a young Matthew Broderick accidentally uses computers to bring the world to the edge of "global thermonuclear war," then you have a pretty good idea what ...

Irish property prices have yet to hit bottom and as a result the final bill for bailing out the banks is likely to be in the region of €90 billion to €100 billion, economist Morgan Kelly said last night. ...

It is a place of soaring mountains, gushing rivers and green meadows considered a utopia by those who visit. But for residents, Kashmir is a place of injustice, death and destruction. It is a wounded parad...

In light of the sustained drought, Governor Mary Fallin today asked all Oklahomans to set aside time this Sunday, July 17, to pray for rain. That was two weeks ago. The result is that Oklahoma went from ...

To hear Pentagon officials tell the story, the recent agreement to deal with the federal debt by cutting military spending is a potentially catastrophic threat to U.S. security. But if you read between the...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, an expert on the Great Depression, once promised that the central bank would never repeat its 1937 mistake of rushing to tighten monetary policy too soon and prolongi...

Question Time is currently on its summer break, and is scheduled to return on 8th September. But! In terrific news for Bias-Watchers everywhere - there will be a special edition broadcast live this Thurs...

And the job was to rewrite mortgage policy to make it more "robust." Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? And I swear these were the manager's exact words to me about the assignment (and I remember thinking...

At the end of this month, conservative publisher Threshold Editions is publishing former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir, *In My Time*. Many fellow Republicans are eagerly lining up to buy the ex VPO...

Protest today to protect sacred San Francisco Peaks! Protest now at High Desert Investment Company in Flagstaff, Arizona. There's no stopping 'em! One arrest on Friday, six arrests on Sunday and 10 arre...

Towards a Broader Middle East-Central Asian War? A two post day, a rarity as of late so don't miss the update on Libya here. BUT, Global Research has just put an article up regarding the imminent invasi...

HEALTH - According to a team of British scientists releasing genetically modified, spermless male mosquitoes into the wild could help to prevent malaria transmission and reduce the chances of large outbrea...

HEALTH - Some of you may have heard about the health benefits of being vegetarian or vegan. And there is a tonne of health benefits (and sexual perks) for those people who choose to go vegetarian or vegan...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honsh, Japan at a depth of 41.1 km, the quake hit at 19:35:38 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 30 km East of Hitachi, Honshu, Ja...

There are reports of trouble in both Manchester and the West Midlands this evening as violence across Britain continues. As 16,000 police swarm London streets in preparation for a fourth night of chaos, ...

Sales for baseball bats on Amazon UK have risen by more than 6,000 percent over the past 24 hours, as the London riots stretch into their third day and spill to neighboring towns. The most popular choice...

-by Jersey Jim Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker-- one of a cohort of rightwing Republican ideologues elected to Congress, state legislatures and governorships in 2010 (largely as a result of apathy among ...

Glenn Carle, who worked in the CIA for 23 years, said in an interview with Press TV: "You can't have someone be beyond the law. Everyone has to be subject to some series of procedures and protections and...

A woman battered a helpless 91-year-old man to death with a bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape wine after befriending his family, the Old Bailey heard today. Widower William Reilly, of Tottenham, north London...

Standing neatly side by side, 50 young girls pose as if for a school yearbook, their smiles every bit as uniform as their pastel outfits and tightly quiffed hairdos. Their innocent enthusiasm is focussed ...

Reader Contribution; Hackers defaced a website belonging to Blackberry maker Research in Motion Tuesday afternoon, after the company said it would aid London police investigating several days of rioting ...

Skip to the 4 minute mark in the video below. The crowd cheers and does nothing as a bunch of animals attack the front window of a small store. These looters have no moral code and lack any sense of respe...

The imperial oligarchy otherwise known as the Presidency and the Super Congress, announced today that the historic subversion of the Republic and its Democratic process will be celebrated by 17 consecuti...

Cops are bad, but looters are worse. Government is bad, but mobs of idiots are worse. In between these two freedom is being squeezed out of existence along with the middle class. Visit Patrick Hennings...

There have been reports of unrest this evening in West Bromwich and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. In Wolverhampton, some stores have been broken into, and in West Bromwich, two cars have been set o...

Last night, once again Africans rioted in London. Violence spread to other cities including Liverpool, Bristol, Birmingham, Nottingham and Leeds. What do these cities have in common? They have large Af...

The stock markets just closed in New York, hooray! (“Hooray,” because now the stock markets can’t fall any further today. But tune in tomorrow!) If you don’t care because you’re already poor — hello, 90% o...

Two girls who took part in Monday night's riots in Croydon have boasted that they were showing police and "the rich" that "we can do what we want". The pair who were drinking wine looted from a local shop...

At least 30 people have died after their boat sank off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, officials say. The accident happened south of the main island of Grande Comore after the boat had set off t...

An Associated Press investigation has found that Japan exposed thousands of its citizens to risk by failing to use radiation forecasts in the early days of its nuclear crisis. The government forecasts pr...

The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a United Nations aid official said Tuesday. Th...

A mother black bear that was shot and killed after it attacked a man in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Anmore had been a fixture in the community, said the mayor. But Heather Anderson said the mother bear...

British authorities might use plastic bullets to quell rioting that has swept the city for a third night and spread to other cities, a senior London police officer says. Such bullets are "one of tactics"...

The tsunami spawned from the March 11 earthquake off eastern Japan broke up parts of an Antarctic ice shelf that hadn't moved in 46 years, scientists say. Though the tsunami waves were only about a foot ...

A Libyan government spokesman said Tuesday that a NATO airstrike has killed 85 civilians near Zlitan, the northwestern Libyan city which has been the target of an intense aerial bombing campaign. Liby...

The bonfire of the bankers is upon us, but the thousands of banking staff faced with losing their jobs could have an extra thing to worry about. According to some headhunters, nobody will want to rehire th...

New York City, whose economy rests on Wall Street's shoulders, has the most to fear from a confidence-rattling economic shock because the city's budget is prepared to adjust to a gradual decline, economist...

Hassan Ali Salman is a stocky, fit-looking young man. But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their ...

Ecuador sees the loans it has agreed with China as "good news" because they are long term, and all that is required in return is "oil, and not the horrendous adjustments imposed by the IMF [International M...

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday ruled out the chance of a US default following S&P's decision to downgrade America's credit rating. "The United States can pay any debt it has bec...

State and local education officials have been begging the federal government for relief from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law, but school starts soon and Congress still hasn...

Eurogeddon is postponed again. Jean-Claude Trichet has saved civilization. There will not be a spiralling bond crisis in Italy and Spain in early August after all. An imminent disintegration of Europe’s fi...

Gold is not a commodity it is a currency – and the devaluation of paper money by money printing is making it more and more attractive. The metal was desirable long before the concept of money was ever inv...

I’ve always felt rather sorry for the 14 interviewees who feature in the Seven Up! series of documentaries. You’ll be familiar with the format: every seven years, film director Michael Apted chases them do...

As stock markets in the developed world tumbled last week, employees of one of the world's biggest banks were left with little doubt about where their futures lay. HSBC announced on Monday that it was cu...

This time we face the risk of double-dip recession without shock absorbers. Interest rates are already at or near zero in much of the OECD club. Fiscal deficits are stretched to the limits of safety. Far...

With their monthly income of 10,000 yuan (about $1,500), Beijing nurse Liang Huiqing and her husband would not have been able to get a foothold in China's soaring property market without government help. ...

Britain is spending 1.3 million pounds ($2.1 million, 1.5 million euros) a month on accomodation for 1,000 service personnel in Italy while they conduct air strikes on Libya, official figures showed Sunday...

A three-year-old girl has vanished without a trace while she was playing outside her house with her older brother. Breeann Rodriguez - who had been on a pink bike with training wheels - was left alone for...

Six years after disappearance of the 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, yet another American tourist has vanished on Aruba while on holiday. Thirty-five-year-old Robyn Gardner, of Frederick, Maryland, disappea...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of Easter Island at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:46:31 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 2526 km (1569 miles) West of Valdivia...

A giant rare whale has washed up on a beach at a British beauty spot. The 55ft fin whale - the world's second largest animal and a globally-endangered species - washed ashore at Lynmouth, Devon. Swansea...

This is the dramatic moment a boat full of tourists narrowly escaped an extremely cold dip as they toured round glacier-filled waters. Panicked tourists watched as a huge chunk of ice broke off a glacier a...

It killed 15,000 people and caused the worst nuclear disaster in 25years. But now it turns out that the effects of the Japanese tsunami which struck the country in March were felt as far away as the Antarc...

Five young criminals including a vicious knife robber and burglars, enjoyed an all-expenses-paid trip to the Alton Towers theme park. The group enjoyed the £250 trip as part of a supervision programme orga...

Sloppy Joes is one of those meals that I like to keep around. It is easy and I usually have the ingredients on hand, especially if we use toasted bread instead of buns. This is one of two ways that I make...

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Mindoro Philippines at a depth of 166.5 km ( 103.5 miles), the quake hit at 15:41:37 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) West of Batangas,...

Following on the heels of Britian's recognition of the Libyan "rebels" as the official government of that country, "diplomat"s named by Libya's rebel administration, the National Transitional Council (NTC...

Image from Los Angeles Times. The shame of California: Prison strike at Pelican BayThis strike has drawn worldwide attention to the widespread use of torturous practices by the United States against its own ...

Does it sound horrible and indefensible that Obama is about to make David Petraeus head of the CIA? It should-- but it shouldn't sound surprising that Petraeus will be heading the world's most hated gov...

[image: This image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite, shows fires burning in parts of Khabarovsk, Amur, and Sakha (Yahkutiya) on July 28, 2011. The...

President Barack Obama has refused to accept responsibility for fresh economic panic on Wall Street, insisting market freefall was sparked in Europe and that the debt crisis was one he inherited. Speaking...

Countries across the world are warning their citizens not to travel to Britain. As a third night of violence saw rioting spread from London to Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, governments ha...

They have been accused of a sluggish response to last nights riots, standing back and watching looters destroy shops and taking a softly-softly approach. But today, when the Metropolitan Police had a chanc...

[image: Gulls fly around a fishing vessel. George Monbiot: 'Our obsession with cod and haddock is trashing the seabed and many of the other species which live there.' Angus Blackburn / Rex Features] By ...

ENTERTAINMENT - Over the next couple of decades there is going to be a lot of books and movies which become "Public Domain". The recent Conan movie is just an example of one such film based on books which ...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 101 km ( 62.8 miles), the quake hit at 14:04:03 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) North ...

[image: Members of the UNSCOM team inspect mustard agent l55-mm artillery projectiles, damaged by fire, at the Fallujah Chemical Proving Ground, 01 August 1991. From left to right, the inspectors are; Jo...

It's not just moderates and progressives in the United States who are losing faith in Barack Obama. So are the Europeans. *Spiegel Online* claims that Obama's indecision and weakness are a serious threat...

In the wake of two terrorist bombings in Xinjiang province, China wants to hunt down Uyghur militants it claims are being trained in Pakistan's ungovernable tribal areas. *Since the blasts, which killed 1...

England has sustained its third night of widespread rioting and looting. What began as an isolated uprising over a police shooting in Tottenham has rapidly spread to other greater London buroughs includi...

Last year a powerful heat wave triggered massive forest fires in Russia and led to the failure of Russia's wheat crop. So far this year, 1-million hectares of Russian forests have been burned out, alread...

I don't know how they can get away with it any longer, but folks, it's been fraud on a global level for decades(!) and it has COME HOME TO ROOST! And those of us hurting badly already? We are breathing our ...

Oh those crazy foaming fundamentalist rightwingers and their homophobia. On Sunday, Bachmann and her curious husband, attended a church service at which the pastor railed on, denouncing homosexuality as "u...

[image: US credit downgrade] The 2012 Republican presidential contenders contain roundly criticized President Barack Obama for economic policies they contend helped make the downgrade of U.S. credit by a ...

Months after the death of the Mars rover Spirit, its surviving twin is poised to reach the rim of a vast crater to begin a fresh round of exploration. Driving commands sent up to Opportunity directed the ...

MPs could be forced into an historic vote on Britain's withdrawal from the European Union after campaigners gathered enough supporters to trigger a debate. A petition demanding a straight vote on whether ...

Vigilantes were forced onto the streets last night to protect their homes and businesses after police failed to materialise at many of the scenes of looting and violence which swept across London. As off...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Fiji Region at a depth of 565.6 km ( 351.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:11:23 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 335 km (208 miles) West of Nuku'Alofa, ...

Didn't David Cameron looked pissed off having been dragged back to gritty, sweltering, seething, burning London from his lovely £10,000/week 18th Century Tuscan holiday villa near Montevarchi! His answe...

. Jew-turned-orthodox-Christian, Brother Nathaniel, hits the nail on the head.....with a big hammer....time and time again in the following 3-minute video presentation. You should try posting such ide...

British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would recall parliament from its summer recess for a day on Thursday after rioting swept through London for three consecutive nights. "This is criminality pur...

Syria defied Arab isolation and mounting international anger on Monday as President Bashar al-Assad's security forces continued attacks on pro-democracy protesters across the country. The US secretary of ...

Humphry Musyoka, a doctor at the world's largest refugee camp, knows well how quickly dehydration can ravage the body of a child. A young girl who seems OK one minute can turn on a dime. But Musyoka, w...

A cargo plane crashed in Russia's Far Eastern Kolyma region on Tuesday, killing 11 people after it disappeared from radar screens, a transport official was quoted as saying by state news agency RIA Novosti...

Heavy rains have triggered a landslide that destroyed about 100 houses in a mountainside village west of Manila. Mayor Jefferson Khonghun says no injuries were reported as the 300 or so villagers had fle...

A large fire broke out in downtown Moscow on Monday evening on the premises of the Mikoyan meat processing plant, emergencies services and police reported. The fire that engulfed 2,000 sq m (21,530 sq ft...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of Java, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:47:44 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 227 km South of Kebumen, Indonesia ...

The FTSE 100 Index was trading below the 5,000 barrier for the first time in more than a year today as the turmoil in financial markets intensified. A slump of more than 5 per cent for Wall Street's Dow Jo...

This is the sickening moment an injured and bleeding teenager is robbed in broad daylight by lawless thugs who pretend to help him to his feet. The unnamed teenager is shown being apparently assisted by ki...

The building that poured flames through the streets of Croydon as the London riots raged had stood for more than 100 years. House of Reeves is a family-run independent furniture store which was so ingra...

Prime Minister David Cameron arrives back from holiday for emergency meeting at 9am 'Unprecedented' number of police to patrol London tonight as all leave is cancelled England game against Netherlands at...

The sands of time are running out for the central star of this hourglass-shaped planetary nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief but spectacular closing phase of MyCn18 - better known as the...

In a report by Real Coastal Warriors about the BP oil spill rig: "BOP valve was leaking, defective, installed wrong, and too weak to function in the first place. Plus it may not even have been turned on."...

Levi Aron, the man suspected of killing eight-year-old New York boy Leiby Kletzky, has been transferred to the city's Rikers Island prison and placed on suicide watch. While awaiting trial for the grisly...

Photo courtesy: Wikipedia An inebriated thief who stole angling equipment from a store in northern Germany was caught near the scene of the crime with several fish hooks embedded in his backside, police ...

The Metropolitan Police have announced that in the next 24 Hours there will be 16.000 Police deployed on the Streets of London. The Commissioner has also called for all 'Specials' to report for Duty and ca...

The body of a scuba diver recovered from Lake Tahoe has been identified as a man who disappeared 17 years ago. Dental records were used to identify Donald Christopher Windecker, from Reno, who was reporte...

Scientists have identified an orange-coloured gunk that appeared along the shore of a remote Alaska village as millions of microscopic eggs. But the mystery is not quite solved. Officials with the Nationa...

A housekeeper has accused her former employers, a Korean Buddhist monk and his family, of keeping her as a prisoner in their homes in Queens, New York, for 12 years and forcing her to work as their 'slave'...

The Telegraph highlights the behaviour of the BBC during the London rioting and focuses on the Corporation's use of the term "protesters" to describe the feral scum infesting our streets. "Two days af...

It's a tricky moment for the BBC as the US stock market drops even lower than Obama's approval ratings, so what to do to try and bolster their hero? How about inviting one of his advisers, Laura Tyson, on ...

A freight train derailed in drought-hit Texas could have come off the line due to warped tracks caused by the state's relentless heatwave after it experienced its hottest July on record. Thousands of heat...

A mystery investor or hedge fund reportedly made a bet of almost $1billion at odds of 10/1 last month that the U.S. would lose its AAA credit rating. Now questions are being asked of whether the trader ha...

POLITICS - On Saturday Afghan warlords shot down a US military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy SEALs unit that killed ...

POLITICS - The United States economy is sitting on a ticking time bomb which could strike at any time... its called a $14.35 trillion National Debt. Earlier this week S&P downgraded the USA from its AAA ra...

Well, as violent thugs *(Impoverished youth with inadequate community centre provision caused by the heartless Coalition. if you work for the BBC*) torch parts of our Capital city, and others join in the ...

An Ohio man apparently angry with his girlfriend shot her and gunned down several others during a house-to-house killing spree Sunday. After an argument in a Copley home, the gunman shot his girlfriend bef...

In his first interview since being jailed on 78 counts of wiretapping in 2008, Hollywood's most notorious private investigator has made an explosive claim concerning the late singer Michael Jackson. While...

The FBI said DNA found on the tie of hijacker D.B. Cooper does not match a new suspect in the case. Special Agent Fred Gutt cautioned that the test does not necessarily rule out the deceased suspect beca...

Life on Earth may have its origins in outer space, according to NASA research. Scientists have analysed meteorites that formed billions of years ago before falling to Earth. The carbon-rich fragments w...

In a series of incidents last night, a drawing room was severely damaged. Our reporter at the scene : "Well, I can tell you this morning that this drawing room has been almost totally destroyed. The c...

A man who stabbed a schoolboy to death in broad daylight with a broken golf club has been sentenced to life in prison. Adam Moore, 20, killed 16-year-old Adil Basharat outside his school gates last Novem...

More than 800,000 families are crippled by a mortgage larger than the value of their home, an alarming report warned yesterday. The Council of Mortgage Lenders report said the number trapped in negative ...

A doctor was cleared of beating his wife with a shoe yesterday after claiming she fabricated the assault. Simon Stacey said the nurse made up the claims out of revenge for his exposing her affair with a ...

Scotland Yard was braced for a furious backlash over the lack of police officers on the streets last night after rioting engulfed London. Several flashpoints in the capital were left completely lawless as ...

Violence and mayhem were spreading like wildfire through the capital last night with police apparently powerless to act. Scenes of mob rule became more terrifying by the minute as widespread arson and ana...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Taupo, New Zealand at a depth of 100 km ( 62 miles), the quake hit at 01:46 pm (NZST) Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 10 km (6.2 miles) North of Taupo, New ...

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 50.5 km ( 31.4 miles), the quake hit at 00:12:57 UTC Tuesday 9th August 2011. The epicenter was 77 km (47 miles) East of R...

Sky's Mark Stone has said he could not see any police as he filmed youths attacking shops in Clapham Junction, south London. He said people smashed the windows of a Ladbrokes bookmakers, a Wimpey fast fo...

Nikkei Index Asian markets have been hammered amid fears that the US is heading for a recession and after Wall Street posted the biggest losses since late 2008. Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 4.8%, South...

*"Vincent Columbraro, the Buttered Toast King, has such tight control over all buttered toast moving in and out of New Jersey that one word from him could ruin breakfast for two-thirds of the nation."* ...

WARNING AREA AND DURATION: United Kingdom, with focus on London, until August 9, 2011, midnight EST. EVENT INFORMATION: Update - August 9, 2011 Rioters now setting fire to buildings while people still...

Race this weekend was super fun. Put on by the Detroit Lions in Allen Park, near their training facility. Instead of medals, they gave out glasses with Detroit Lions and the race info on it, and there were...

Riots have spread to new areas of London while looting erupted in the cities of Birmingham and Liverpool as Britain's worst violence in decades extended into the third night. Shops and cars were set a...

In a muddy pile of sand where a pond once flowed in the Texas Panhandle, dead fish, their flesh already decayed and feasted on by maggots, lie with their mouths open. Nearby, deer munch on the equivalent o...

[image: Empty streets in the Fukushima exclusion zone, 7 August 2011. Sean Bonner / safecast.org] By Sean Bonner 7 August 2011 The Safecasting drives officially started after my last trip to Japan, so ...

How far are we from #gfc2? For those not aware, #gfc2 is the Twitter hashtag used for "global financial crisis 2". And the question I ask is a real one. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog wondering whet...

More than 200,000 protest in Tel Aviv, 20,000 in Jerusalem demanding social justice; speakers deny that movement has become politicized; Netanyahu to appoint team of ministers to negotiate protesters’ dema...

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain recalled their Damascus envoys as Sunni Islam's top body on Monday urged an end to the crisis in Syria, increasing the regional isolation of President Bashar al-Assad. Ho...

The riots in London have made headlines around the world - here's a round-up of the coverage from our international correspondents. Pictures and descriptions of the disturbances feature prominently in the...

US and South Korean troops will practise destroying North Korean weapons of mass destruction during an annual joint exercise this month to improve their combat-readiness, a report said Sunday. The allies...

Strong resistance by Moamer Kadhafi's forces and conflicting impulses to topple the Libyan ruler and hit a political settlement are stumping France's and its allies' efforts to end the conflict, experts sa...

France, a driving force in the NATO operation in Libya, on Friday said it could not confirm reports that Moamer Kadhafi's youngest son and feared commander Khamis had been killed in an air strike. "We do...

Democrats and Republicans in Washington need to stop blaming each other over the unprecedented US credit rating downgrade and find solutions, China's official Xinhua news agency said early on Monday. The...

Newt Gingrich had an awkward moment last week when an ABC News producer presented him with one of his campaign t-shirt’s, which was made in El Salvador. This is very embarrassing, of course, since Gingri...

Belarus and South Ossetia have reacted cautiously after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested he would like to see them join the Russia Federation. Putin, speaking to a youth forum Russia's Mon...

President Ma Ying-jeou said Taiwan should strengthen its defences against Chinese espionage, following a string of spy scandals showing that intelligence gathering continues despite warming ties. Taiwan ...

A Japanese defence researcher has invented a spherical observation drone that can fly down narrow alleys, hover on the spot, take off vertically and bounce along the ground. About the size of a beachball...

We've covered before the horrible consequences of constantly given factory farm animals antibiotics so they don't get sick in the sickening conditions we make them live. And recently the USDA commissioned ...

The National Climatic Data Center's (NCDC) latest "Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters" report finds the U.S. has racked up more mega-expensive natural disasters in 2011 than ever before. So far we've su...

In a muddy pile of sand where a pond once flowed in the Texas Panhandle, dead fish, their flesh already decayed and feasted on by maggots, lie with their mouths open. Nearby, deer munch on the equivalent o...

She was called the luckiest woman in the world. But now that luck is being called into question by some who think that winning the lottery four times is more than just a coincidental spell of good fortun...

Standard & Poor's downgraded the ratings of government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Monday, citing their reliance on U.S. government. Both Fannie and Freddie were lowered to AA+ from ...

Michigan has removed about 30,000 college students from its food stamp program — close to double the initial estimate — saving about $75 million a year, says Human Services Director Maura Corrigan. Feder...

More than a month after the Obama administration said it would tap the country’s emergency oil reserve to try to combat supply disruptions in the Middle East, gas prices at the pump actually have risen 10 ...

A Lakeland mother has been arrested for child abuse after family members said she bit her son. Police investigated 26-year-old Ann Marie Kane after Department of Children and Families officials reported ...

A housekeeper has accused a Korean Buddhist monk and his family of forcing her to work as a slave in their Queens home. According to the New York Times, the lawsuit alleges the family kept the woman a pr...

Gold vaulted above $1,700 an ounce for the first time on Monday after pledges by the G7 and the European Central Bank to quell the turbulence in the financial markets did nothing to put investors at ease. ...

Three Mexican nationals attempted to illegally land their boat on California's Huntington Beach Sunday -- about a mile away from where crowds were forming to watch a professional surfing contest. Lifegua...

The man who leads one of China’s top rating agencies says the greenback’s status as the world’s reserve currency is set to wane as the world’s most powerful policy makers convene to examine the implication...

On July 29, America’s government statisticians revised GDP statistics for the past few years. They showed not only that the recession was deeper than what was apparent at the time; they also showed that su...

KEMP, TEXAS, August 8 (ABC) – Water conservation has been turned up a notch in one North Texas community: The water has been cut off. Kemp Mayor Donald Kile says water was turned off to residents Sunda...

U.S. and European markets closed sharply down Monday as investors responded to the unprecedented downgrade of U.S. debt on Friday and concerns around the ongoing eurozone crisis. The Dow Jones industr...

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows, Part Two. Harry Potter through the eyes of an Afghan childUnderstanding the lesson of Harry Potter is essential to understanding the cultural values that underpin our nee...

This week is the annual Mom Visit, which I greatly look forward to. I have a special surprise planned, but just in case my mom is peeking in, it will remain a surprise. Tala's rehab did not go as well as ...

There's very little positive an honest man can say about the DCCC. They're part of the problem, not the solution to it. This year their recruitment of conservative and corrupt assholes like Marty Chavez i...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 10 km ( 6.2 miles), the quake hit at 19:46:54 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 120 km East of Iwaki, ...

Rule number one about pulling off a successful heist is that you don't tell anyone - and you definitely don't post a picture of yourself online with all the stolen goods. Unfortunately, this rule was lost...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck near the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan at a depth of 104 km, the quake hit at 17:53:26 UTC Monday 8th August 2011. The epicenter was 45 km Southwest of Khorung No d...

An exploding meteor was believed to be responsible for a huge bang that reverberated around the Pacific island nation of Niue last week, according to police. Niue police chief Mark Chenery said the loud b...

Sporadic violence has broken out in several parts of London as shops are looted and police are attacked in a third day of civil disorder - and there is also unrest in Birmingham. The latest disturbances ...

Reader Contribution; There's gold in every Girl Scout Cookies box. Actually, it's graphene -- a single-atom-thick sheet of the same material in pencil lead -- that can be made from just about any carbon ...

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